Disappeared in America

  • installation detail, Disappeared in America
    installation detail, Disappeared in America
installation detail, Disappeared in America

Disappeared in America, a traveling exhibition that premiered at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, begins its west coast tour here at UCI.  Created by Naeem Mohaiem, Director of VISIBLE, a Collective of Muslim and Other Artists, Disappeared is a walk-through installation that uses film, soundscape, images, installations and lectures to humanize the faces of post 9/11 "disappeared" Muslims.  Excerpts and lectures from Disappeared have been shown in Stuttgart (with Walid Raad/Atlas Group), London (with Otolith Group), Berlin (KunstWerke with Natasa Petresin), New York (Queens Museum of Art; Brecht Forum; South Street Seaport; Cooper Union), Stockholm (Finnish Embassy), Karlskrona (Military Museum), Belgrade and Helsinki (Kiasma Museum).  It is showing next in Lebannon and Liverpool (FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology).

Artist: 
VISIBLE: A Collective of Muslim and Other Artists
Curator: 
Naeem Mohaiem
Venue: 
University Art Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 
Oct 06, 2005 to Oct 20, 2005

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  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View
  • Disappeared in America Installation View